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As for the military colonels themselves, they continue to exhibit fascist-like authoritarianism, puritanism, extrfeme nationalism, and anti-intellectualism. Their obsession with mini-skirts, beards, independent prelates, actresses, and song-writers indicates an inability to face serious economic and administrative problems Their announcement to the effect that an expert committee...
James Purdy has achieved a considerable literary reputation for his precisely chiseled prose style and gallows humor (Malcolm, The Nephew, 63: Dream Palace). His talent does not flag here, despite his choice of subject. But Eustace Chisholm is not unlike certain surrealistic paintings in its rather surprising lack of effect...
Outside Distractions. "I think you have an obsession with secrecy, Mr. Webb," snapped Representative John W. Wydler of New York. Added Representative Ken Hechler of West Virginia: "I intend to be much more skeptical of NASA in the future, on this program and others."
His obsession with respectability and the practical politics of protest barely disguises an emotional, radical opposition to the war. At the end of the Harvard speech, someone asked him if draft resistance could be justified. Considering the nature of the Vietnam conflict, Vaughn said, he unequivocably condoned all forms of...
Johnson is Mailer's political obsession; his speech about LBJ at Berkeley last summer was cut off by the university radio station after ten minutes. Johnson, he said, invented the war to satisfy the rednecks who wanted to kill gooks, giving him an alternative to continued support of the civil...